Best 121 quotes in «mediocre quotes» category

It pays to be really poor or really rich in the USA and it really sucks if you are in the middle earning a mediocre salary.

I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.

Most people are each just another human being.

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

Many people from the UK have the impression that the USA medical profession is the best in the world. After a decade of treatment from them, I had concluded that it is a very expensive system that is riddle with incompetence and delivers mediocre care.

Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?—because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.

Mediocrity is a choice. I hope you choose to say ‘NO!

Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.

She would be able to stay mediocre, something that I would never be able to go back to being.

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

Retaliation retards your excellence. Nelson Mandela would not have been named as a great man if not for his courage to forgive those who schemed and plotted it for him to spend those 10000 bitter days in prison.

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.

Societies are mediocre, individuals are excellent.

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

Some people are troubled by their mediocrity. Some, by their greatness.

Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can't afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average

The lack of limitless positive imagination has undoubtedly led many people with great potential to settle for a mediocre state of living.

Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting canned. What were they supposed to say-I'm sorry, your kid has no promise whatsoever? She's utterly mediocre in every way?

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.

Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones.

The vast majority of people are each the greatest only at being them.

There is no future in the past. Any tour into the past is perhaps courage to live at the average level as you did; old and cold, blind and blunt! Come out! Out of the past and change position. You matter, your future matters

There is no trivia in a strategic mind.

There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain; the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his room is to fall on the carpet of his floor!

To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.

Timidness in life only yield mediocre outcomes.

Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived; it’s just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!

What does it profit man if he allows a nonentity to make him look irrelevant just because he wants to indirectly have him become a life member of the nonentity club? No man can make you less valuable except you enter into agreement with such man. Not all birds with wings have the mastery of soaring high....

You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option!

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Was he to bray this in profoundest brass Arointing his dreams with fugal requiems? Was he to company vastest things defunct With a blubber of tom-toms harrowing the sky? Scrawl a tragedian's testament? Prolong His active force in an inactive dirge, Which, let the tall musicians call and call, Should merely call him dead? Pronounce amen Through choirs infolded to the outmost clouds? Because he built a cabin who once planned Loquacious columns by the ructive sea? Because he turned to salad-beds again?

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.

All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

A high church for the true mediocre.

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.